Towards weeds identification assistance through transfer learning

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 171, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Espejo Garcia, Borja ^a   Mylonas, Nikos ^a   Athanasakos, Loukas ^a   Fountas, Spyros ^a   Vasilakoglou, Ioannis ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (Greece)

Author keywords

Deep learning; Open data; Precision agriculture; Transfer learning; Weed identification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; COTTON; CROPS; DEEP LEARNING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; OPEN DATA; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION;

COMPUTER ASSISTED; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORKS; COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.); PLANT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; WEED IDENTIFICATION;

TRANSFER LEARNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MACHINE LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; WEED;

GREECE;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM NIGRUM;

EID: 85081018738     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105306     Document Type: Article

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